308823 (v.1) Linear Systems Modelling 232

Area:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

3.5

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly

Other Requisite(s):

Completion of first year of course: Completion of CFY Engineering

Syllabus:

Introduction to (motivation for linear system modelling). Unit impulse and step, ramp. Linear time invariant system definitions and properties. Applications of the unit impulse, convolution and sinusoidal steady state system response. Initial condition solution. Stability, frequency response function. Introduction to Laplace transforms. Transforms of analytical functions, Laplace transform tables. Transfer functions. Unit impulse response. Poles and zeros. Inverse Laplace transforms, theorems. Solution to simultaneous differential equations. Sine and cosine Fourier Series, dirichlet conditions, Gibbs phenomenon, functions of arbitrary period, complex exponential Fourier Series, Spectral representation of Fourier Series, time-frequency representation of periodic functions and Fourier Integral. Introduction to state space analysis, formulation of equations in state space form. Matrix exponential expansion. Laplace transform solution of state space equations and matrix solution methods.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

030701 Mechanical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External